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New details from EZ-Pack puts a definite time table for the closing of the Cynthiana plant.
EZ-Pack spokesman Tom Kennedy, said in a telephone interview Tuesday that EZ-Pack will no longer operate as a separate entity.
“Due to the purchasing of certain areas of EZ-Pack production by Navistar, the plant will continue to operate until the early months of 2013 and then will close,” said Kennedy.
Kennedy said the production of the integrated garbage truck will be transferred to a plant in Alabama and will be overseen by Navistar.

He’s touched the lives of hundreds of students, and though several years retired, he’s still teaching and still touching lives.
Bill Caywood, former Harrison County High School teacher and speech and drama coach, was recently honored at the University of Kentucky 2012 Teachers Who Made a Difference ceremony.
His nomination for the honor was made by one of Caywood’s former students, Jenny Lynn Varner Hatter, who also starred in Caywood’s recent production of Lost in Yonkers at Rohs Opera House.

By Kristie Hamon, Summer intern
Abdallah Park Road, formally McIlvain Boulevard, has been closed until further notice because of damage to the road and potentially unsafe driving conditions.
Mayor Steve Moses said about three months ago there started to be slippage of the road and cracks in the middle. He also said the road has a false shoulder that could potentially give way at any time.
“We’ve got several holes in the road down here,” Moses said. “The road’s starting to tear apart.”

For the first time in Harrison County’s long Relay for Life history, cancer survivors will be honored with a pre-event dinner.
After having been in charge of the survivors’ tent for the last two years, Hospice staff decided to celebrate with survivors in a more intimate surrounding.
Beginning at 5 p.m. on Friday, June 22, anyone who has been diagnosed with cancer and one guest are invited to stop by the Harrison County High School cafeteria where they will register for prizes, pickup their t-shirt and goodie bags and have dinner.

A Sunday afternoon fire claimed most of a house on Charlotte Drive but officials say it will be salvageable.
A call was made to dispatch at 12:24 p.m., Sunday, June 3, for a structure fire at 119 Charlotte Drive, home of Danny Carter.
According to Cynthiana Fire Chief Jay Sanders, responders were at the home within two minutes of the call and had the situation under control quickly.

The Harrison County Cooperative Extension Service will serve as the working home to a Gardnersville, Ky, native this summer.
Each summer in recent history, the Harrison County Cooperative Extension Services has allowed college students to intern for 12 weeks with the county agents as a way of seeing how the world of extension looks through the eyes of those who work in it every day.
This year, Eli Mann, an upcoming senior at Morehead University, has filled the coveted position at the Harrison County Extension Office.

The Cynthiana man who was first charged with intentionally setting his home on fire and then allegedly attempting to kill his wife in a bar fight has been named in two Harrison County indictments.
Michael King, 47, was one of five people indicted Tuesday.
King faces 11 charges resulting from the two separate melees that occurred less than two months apart.
The first charges stem from a March 13 incident where King is accused of first degree arson, four counts of first degree wanton endangerment and first degree criminal mischief.

Entries are needed for the The Post-it® Note Fashion Show and Contest. Deadline to enter is June 22.
Design, create and show clothing made from a wide variety of Post-it® Notes and Scotch® Tape (provided by 3M). The possibilities are endless. Register your team of up to four people, pick up the provided supplies, and put your fashion sense and ingenuity to the test designing Post-it® Note (and more) clothing.

In last weeks article ‘Commissioners want more cuts in budget,’ Commissioner Roger Slade should have been quoted in a rhetoric comment saying “We’re still $600,000 short on our wish list, where would that money come from, the reserve?”

By Kristie Hamon, Summer intern
So far, 2012 hasn’t been a good year for the Harrison County Senior Citizens Center.
The Senior Citizens Center faced hard times in January when temperatures dropped and the sprinkler system got water in it and flooded the entire front entrance of the center. And, that was just the beginning of their problems.
Tracy Whitaker, director of the senior citizens center, said that because of a contract the center signed on the lease, they have to take care of all maintenance and insurance problems on their own.